Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA,  is the premier professional membership societ...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...